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Voluntary breath-hold technique for reducing heart dose in left breast radiotherapy.
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- Voluntary Deep Inspiration Breath-Hold (VDIBH) Whole-Breast Irradiation Assisted by Optical Surface Monitoring System (OSMS) in Patients With Left-Sided Breast Cancer: A Prospective Phase II Study.Technology in cancer research & treatmentTrial
- Alternative Treatment Positions over Supine in Adjuvant Whole Breast RT: Prone, Lateral or What Else? A Comprehensive Narrative Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Dosimetric advantage of ipsilateral lung and cardiac sparing of left breast cancer prone position compared with supine free breathing in the COVID-19 era and personalized medicine.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2025Article
- Deep Inspiration Breath Hold in Left-Sided Breast Radiotherapy: A Balance Between Side Effects and Costs.JACC. CardioOncology · 2024Article
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- First clinical experience with real-time portal imaging-based breath-hold monitoring in tangential breast radiotherapy.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2022Article
- Radiation-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction: Optimizing Radiation Delivery and Postradiation Care.Heart failure clinics · 2022Review
- Evaluation of image-guided and surface-guided radiotherapy for breast cancer patients treated in deep inspiration breath-hold: A single institution experience.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2022Article
- Shortening the preparation time of the single prolonged breath-hold for radiotherapy sessions.The British journal of radiology · 2022Article
- The impact of modern radiotherapy on long-term cardiac sequelae in breast cancer survivor: a focus on deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) technique.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2022Review
- Safely achieving single prolonged breath-holds of > 5 minutes for radiotherapy in the prone, front crawl position.The British journal of radiology · 2021Article
- Impact of Positioning Errors on the Dosimetry of Breath-Hold-Based Volumetric Arc Modulated and Tangential Field-in-Field Left-Sided Breast Treatments.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
- Evaluation of a 3D surface imaging system for deep inspiration breath-hold patient positioning and intra-fraction monitoring.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2019Article
- Breast size impact on adjuvant radiotherapy adverse effects and dose parameters in treatment planning.Radiology and oncology · 2018Article
- Continuous breath-hold assessment during breast radiotherapy using portal imaging.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2018Article
- Monitoring deep inspiration breath hold for left-sided localized breast cancer radiotherapy with an in-house developed laser distance meter system.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2017Article
- Safely prolonging single breath-holds to >5 min in patients with cancer; feasibility and applications for radiotherapy.The British journal of radiology · 2016Article
- Voluntary breath-holding for breast cancer radiotherapy is consistent and stable.The British journal of radiology · 2015Article
- Voluntary breath-hold reduces dose to organs at risk in radiotherapy of left-sided breast cancer.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation OncologyArticle
- Effects of Radiation Dose on Liver After Free-breathing Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy for Breast Cancer.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
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Abstract
Breath-holding techniques reduce the amount of radiation received by cardiac structures during tangential-field left breast radiotherapy. With these techniques, patients hold their breath while radiotherapy is delivered, pushing the heart down and away from the radiotherapy field. Despite clear dosimetric benefits, these techniques are not yet in widespread use. One reason for this is that commercially available solutions require specialist equipment, necessitating not only significant capital investment, but often also incurring ongoing costs such as a need for daily disposable mouthpieces. The voluntary breath-hold technique described here does not require any additional specialist equipment. All breath-holding techniques require a surrogate to monitor breath-hold consistency and whether breath-hold is maintained. Voluntary breath-hold uses the distance moved by the anterior and lateral reference marks (tattoos) away from the treatment room lasers in breath-hold to monitor consistency at CT-planning and treatment setup. Light fields are then used to monitor breath-hold consistency prior to and during radiotherapy delivery.
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